Spoiled by Wet n Wild ~ Distant Memory - with Funky Fingers stripes

Spoiled by Wet n Wild ~ Distant Memory  

Green with subtle blue shimmer

Striped with

Funky Fingers  ~ Baby baby baby  

Clear base packed with light teal and holographic glitter

I started out with two easy coats of Spoiled “Distant Memory”. The brush is quite wide but manageable, and the formula of the polish wasn’t as thick as on the other Spoiled polishes I’ve tried. It almost covered in one coat, but I had a few thin spots, so I decided to give it two coats.

It dried up to a semi-matte, almost velvety surface. I’m not really into matte polishes (plus, the top coat always glosses them over), but I do love this finish!

Here’s a pic from another angle. There isn’t any top coat involved just yet.

Then I went a long way around to achieve some stripes. I masked half my nail with masking tape and painted half my nails with “Baby baby baby” from Funky Fingers. I love the glitters, which Funky Fingers make – they’re all really pretty.

Then I painted one stripe of glitter on the green part of the nail, and one stripe of green colour on the glitter part of the nail, and here’s what I ended up with. It’s sealed with one coat of Seche Vite top coat.

I think this is pretty, but it wasn’t the look I was after. What I really wanted was a green half with a glitter stripe and a green half with a silver stripe. I guess I have to paint the stripe on very thin to achieve that look. Or alternatively: My nails aren’t wide enough. You pick! ;)

Either way – I’m keeping my stripy nails for now. :)

Spoiled ~ Distant Memory

Opacity: 9/10
Colour, prettiness: 7/10
Durability: 6/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 7.5/10
Buy again: Yes

Funky Fingers  ~ Baby baby baby  

Opacity: -/10
Colour, prettiness: 10/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
Buy again: Yes

Spoiled by Wet n Wild ~ Are Mermaids Real?

Spoiled by Wet n Wild ~ Are Mermaids Real?   

Medium dusty purple with golden glass flecks

I got this polish in a swap with Katee from A girl and her Polish. I must admit that I didn’t quite know what to do with it when I first got it, since I’m not a gold lover. But all of a sudden it struck me. I could make a Mermaid Mani with it.

So let’s find out if mermaids are real, shall we?

Application wasn’t as big a challenge as with the other Spoiled polishes I’ve tried on. The brush is just as wide, and the formula is quite thick. But I managed this one without problems.

I applied two coats for full opacity. And here’s how that looked without a top coat on:

And from another angle:

Then I decided to cover up some of the golden tones, so I sponged the tips with Sinful Colors Green Ocean, which is such a cool flakie that sparkles green and teal.

Now for the stamping! I stamped a scale pattern from Mash plate number 39, and used a purple no name suede called “Suzi skis in the Pyrenees”, which is my favourite purple polish for stamping.

 

Here is the final result sealed up with two coats of Poshé top coat.

My conclusion is that Mermaids must be real! ;)  I like this, despite the fact that this polish has golden undertones. Who knew that I could actually wear that!?

Opacity: 7/10
Colour, prettiness: 4/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 6.75/10
Buy again: No

Spoiled by Wet n Wild ~ Ants in my Pants

Spoiled by Wet n Wild ~ Ants in my Pants   

Blackened base with multisized red glitter

This polish has been a lemming since I first laid my eyes on it. I knew I had to have it. And I bounced around happily as my polish swapping buddy #1 Katee from A Girl and her Polish sent it to me. That was the moment of the month, that’s for sure!!! Thank you so much, Katee!!! <3

I decided to layer it over black. My guess is that it would take at least 4 coats to make this fully opaque, and as some of you know by now: I’m not the most patient person in the world. So: layered over one coat of Essence “Black is back”, which is my favourite black crème. It’s fully opaque in one coat and fast drying.

I painted two coats of “Ants in my Pants” over the black. The application sure was a challenge. The brush is friggin’ wide, and even though I usually prefer a brush on the wide side, this is perhaps taking it a bit too far! And the formula is quite thick. But I managed.

I chose another polish for my ring finger and my thumb, namely Spoiled’s “Pick your Poison”, which I reviewed here. Two coats of that. Here’s what it all looked like, all sealed up under a coat of Poshé top coat.

And here it is from another angle. I really like this!

Stamping time! I wanted some black on the accent nails, so I stamped a pattern from Mash plate number 48, and used a no name black stamping polish.

Here it is with an additional coat of Poshé top coat.

 And another picture, because it’s so pretty:

I totally love “Ants in my pants”, it lives up to all my expectations. Do you like it?

Opacity: 5/10
Colour, prettiness: 9/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 7.5/10
Buy again: Yes

Spoiled by Wet n Wild ~ Pick your poison

Spoiled by Wet n Wild ~ Pick your poison   

Shimmery red

I got this beautiful red in a swap with Katee from A Girl and her Polish. It kinda looks like any old red, but it’s actually quite different in more than one way.

Let me say right away: Application is a challenge. The formula is very thick, and the brush is very wide and the combination of those two makes it very tricky to apply this polish. Normally I prefer a thicker polish over a thinnie, but then the brush needs to be good to work with. This brush is as wide as the nail on my little finger, so there’s no room for mistakes. I did OK though, in my opinion anyway :D

Next special thing is that it’s a single coater. I was amazed over how good it looked after just one stroke with the brush!

OK. Enough talking – here’s one coat, no top coat:

Stamping time! I used two plates from Essence (they don’t have names or numbers) for the paw prints, and big stamping plate K (appropriately) for the Kitty Cats. I used a no-name white stamping polish.

Here’s the result before the top coat. I was very pleased with it!!

Then I applied one coat of Poshé top coat, and then it all went horribly wrong. This has happened before: The top coat makes the white suck up some of the colour from underneath, and so I ended up with coral-coloured paw prints and cats on my nails.

Yucksville!!

I lived with it for a couple of hours before I just had to take it off. Coral is definitely not my favourite colour, no no no!

Opacity: 10/10
Colour, prettiness: 9/10
Durability: N/A/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 9/10
Buy again: Yes

Max Factor ~ Dazzling Blue

Max Factor ~ Dazzling Blue  

Light blue/green/purple multichrome

I bought this because I thought it was sea green. Little did I know that I’d got my hands on a multichrome that flashes more blue than green.

The formula is ok to work with. I was positively surprised by the brush – I had expected a very thin brush, but this one actually normal in size and good to work with. It took three coats to reach opacity. Normally it would have annoyed me to wait in between coats, but the drying time was fast so it wasn’t a chore to sit and wait.

Here’s what three coats without top coat looks like.

You can see that it flashes blueish green and purple. It’s a very special colour combo IMO. The colour is a bit pale, and I’ve stepped a little outside my comfort zone here. That’s why I chose to stamp on it, to darken it a bit.

I chose an all nail design from a stamping plate called A28 and I used a Spoiled polish called “The Parking Meteor has expired”, which is a blackened teal that looks absolutely gorgeous in the bottle. The shimmer looks amazing. That didn’t transfer onto the nail unfortunately, but the stamping worked.

Here’s how it ended up looking like:

I like that. But there’s still something missing, isn’t there? Glitter, of course! So I used my Jesse’s Girl “Opal Glitter”, which is a clear base with iridescent glitter. I wanted to spice up the “scales” of the snake skin.

And here’s the final mani. There’s no top coat involved at this point.

I call it “The Chameleon”! :)

And here’s a shot of the bottle. Look at that multichrome!

 Have you ever been expecting one colour from a polish, and then experienced something completely different? Do you prefer this mani with or without the glitter?

Opacity: 4/10
Colour, prettiness: 6/10
Durability: 6/10
Value for money: 4/10
Overall: 5/10
Buy again: No

Catrice ~ Dirty Berry

Catrice ~ Dirty Berry  

Dusty purple base with holo effect

The name suits this polish perfectly: The base colour is a dirty looking purple. There’s a scattered holo effect as well, but the sun wasn’t out when I took the pics, so I can’t document that, even though I would have loved to.

The formula was very easy to work with, and it took two very easy coats to reach full opacity. Not bad for a pale colour like this one!

Two coats, no top coat, indoor shot:

On to the next step: Sponging! I used P2 “Purple Sky” from the collection “Deep water love”, which I bought in a blog sale. Hurray for blog sales!

I taped around my nails and sponged the tips with “Purple Sky”. Purple Sky is a beautiful warm, shimmery purple. I think those two purples look great together, even though they are very different.

Here’s how that looks like. There’s still no top coat involved, ‘cause there’s more to come…

Then I added the last thing, the bling! I chose Spoiled “Trust Fund Baby”, which is a clear base with pink, turquoise, black and gold glitters. I tried to get as little glitter on the brush as possible, in order to not let it take over the complete mani. I still wanted the gradient to be visible!

Here’s that last step, and how the mani ended up looking like. Still no top coat – I added that later, after I had taken the pictures.

Catrice ~ Dirty Berry 

Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 6/10
Durability: 7/10
Value for money: 7/10
Overall: 7/10
Buy again: Yes

Summer Challenge Day 26: Inspired by a pattern

Summer Challenge Day 26: Inspired by a pattern

Patterns, eh? I googled patterns, and there’s quite a lot to choose between. After a lot of browsing, I decided to go for none of them :D 
Instead I went pattern-hunting in my own house. And after having browsed from room to room I ended up with something useful. I’ll get back to what it was at the end of this post.

The finished manicure ended up looking like this: 

 I used “Deeper Dive” by Spoiled. It’s a teal, shimmery jelly with small flakies in it, and it is opaque in two very easy coats. I love the polishes from Spoiled, even though the fat brushes can be a challenge to work with. Here are two coats of Deeper Dive – without any top coat on.

I stamped with a no name silver stamping polish and I used the bubble motif from Mash’s stamping plate #50. I really like how this mani came out! 

 Are you curious about where my inspiration came from? Or have you guessed it already?

Here’s my inspiration:

My shower curtain! :D

I had in mind to make the rings with a drinking straw dipped in polish, but my nails are too curved for that, even though I have never thought of them as particularly curved. I didn’t manage to make one single ring with the straw, no matter how hard I tried. So thank god for stamping plates, when everything else fails!

There are other Danish girls who also did a “inspired by a pattern” mani today. It’ll be very interesting to hear where they found their inspiration, so why don’t we check their blogs out?

• Neglelir
• Se min kjole
• Mette
• Life is a fairy tale
• Vicki's Polish

Stay tuned the day after tomorrow - same bat time, same bat channel – for nails inspired by artwork!

Nail Mail from Katee

Nail mail - you just gotta love it! <3

I did another swap with Katee from "A girl and her polish", and was very excited when the parcel showed up. I love getting parcels, and especially if there's nail polish in them!

I opened it, and see what was inside: 

And inside of that large bag of bubble wrap was this exciting sight: 

Eep!! :D I carefully unwrapped each and every one of them, and here's what was inside: 

Looks like a great haul, right? Let's take a closer look at them all: 

OPI - Fiercely Fiona from the Shrek collection

Spoiled by Wet n Wild: Trust Fund Baby, Are Mermaids Real? and Jewelry Heist

Spoiled by Wet n Wild: The Parking Meteor Expired, My Saturn Broke Down, Distant Memory, Show me the Money

Spoiled by Wet n Wild: Ants in my Pants, Pick your Poison, Shuffle the Deck

Isn't that just a great haul? 

Thanks Katee, for doing this swap with me. <3